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Millennials may have popularized hookup culture and the notion of “friends with benefits,” but social scientists have made a surprising discovery about the sex lives of these young adults — they’re less promiscuous than their parents’ generation. The average number of sexual partners for American adults born in the 1980s and 1990s is about the same as for baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964, according to a study published this week in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. But that number is determined by a combination of factors — the time period when people reach adulthood, their age at the time they are surveyed, and the generation...

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